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Companies
4,377 companies were mapped, including 172 categorized as Closed in the “Operating Status” column. Those latter companies were added to the database yet excluded in this analysis leaving a total of 4,205.
Among the main words identified on the companies’ description we find “platform”, “provid” (meaning provider), “onlin”, “develop” and “servic”. It is implied on the words that companies are mostly related to online platforms that provide services and solutions with technology and data. i.e. mainly digital companies.
Besides columns shown at the table, we gathered 94 columns for each company. Among the most important are: Categories, Funding Status, IPO Status, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Contact Email, Phone Number, Description, Total Funding Amount, Number of Funding Rounds, Number of Investors, Number of Lead Investors Number of Current Team Members Number of Articles an Number of Events, among many other.
Verticals
In order to give better insights, all categories in this report were merged with PayU’s main verticals:
Additional categories were added in order to preserve consistency among companies and between industries.
352 (8.4%) companies did not have a category so they were taken out of this pie chart.
PayU’s main verticals represent 69% of the categories in the database. Most of them are Digital Services (28.2%), Direct Selling (17.5%) and Software (16.6%).
The category with most revenue in USD on average is Aerospace ($653M USD), Digital Services ($471M USD) and Fintech ($169M USD). Since Aerospace does not have a significant amout of companies (10), the category with most sales, on average, is Digital Services.
In regard of monthly visitors, Software as a category is significantly higher than the rest with an average monthly visit of 67 millions. The top companies are: YouTube (24 billions), Quora (589 millions) and Zhihu (286 millions).
Government and NGO’s have the most amount of tech products. However, the amount of companies working in those categories is not representative (11 and 4). The category with most tech products is Uber Model Sharing (31).
Location - Country
84.3% of the companies mapped are located in the United States (75.2%), United Kingdom (4%), China (3%) and India (2.1%).
For each country, we mapped the average annual USD revenue, monthly visitors, technological products, team members, events, articles (made by them), number of funding rounds and number of investors. Countries with relatively low amount of companies (<9) are not going to be taken into consideration for this specific analysis.
Finland ($266M USD), India ($258M USD) and United States ($245M USD) take the lead on average income per company.
In regard of average monthly visitors, Indonesia takes the lead with 48M visits. The amount of companies in Indonesia is relatively small (9) so it makes sense to zoom in to the most visited company: Bukalapak. It is an e-commerce company with 82M visits monthly.
Use of technological products inside these companies is vital to garantee a competitive advantage. The ones with the most are Indonesia and the next country, with relatively high companies (81) is India. This country is worldwide known for its computational capabilities and proof of that is the amount of technological products every company uses on average: 28.
Belgium and Israel take the lead on average team members (10 and 9, respectively). Switzerland and US on number of Board Members (6 and 4).
On average, the countries with the most visits to events are United States (6), Sweden (6), France (6) and Belgium (6). This insight can serve as an input to tune the events participation strategy worldwide towards these countries.
Finally, the countries with the most investors, on average, are Sweden (14), Singapore (11) and United States (9).
Location - PayU Regions
On average, India leads the annual revenue with $258.7M USD. Follows USA and Canada with $238.8M USD and Asia with 98.4M USD. Not surprisingly, USA/CA and India lead the average monthly visitors of all regions (18.6M and 9.7M respectively).
On average, India and Asia lead the average funding rounds (6 and 4.4), while India, Brazil and USA/CA lead on average investors per company (9).
Funding
54.8% of companies are part of PayU’s main focus as they are passing through funding stages (Early and Late Stage Venture). Merged & Acquired (M&A) companies take 36.1% of the database.
Public companies (IPO), the ones that list into the stock exchange, represent 1.74% of the data.
We decided to take into consideration for the analysis all companies since the definition of “High Velocity Merchants” is still been tested.
Companies with Private Equity are the ones that have not passed through an investment state, so they are financed by own equity and debt. They can go from small and medium business to big private companies. The average number of investors in this type of companies is 7. Even though they represent 1.26% of the amount in the database, they account for 34% (736M USD) of the Funding Amount mapped.
Team
53% of companies in the database have between 11 and 200 employees and 14% have between 201 and 5.000 employees. Very few (44) have more than 5.000 employees and most of them are in the United States.
The difference between Employees and Team Members is that the latter is the leadership team (VP’s, managers, C-level employees).
Companies between 501 and 1000 are the ones that assists the most to events (13 per company, on average), while companies between 1001 and 5000 publish the most articles, on average.
Founders
Founders refer themselves at their job role (like “CEO”, “CTO”, “entrepreneur” or “investor”), work approach (work, design, technolog, develop) and their academic experience (studi, stanford university, University California).
Top Influence Founder
This bubble chart represents those founders with most connections in Angel.co and most followers on Twitter. It is filtered by those who have more than 600 connections to facilitate the visualization.
- The color of the bubble represent the number of companies a founder has, according to Angel.co.
- The size of the bubble represents a weighted indicator that considers 30% of Twitter followers and 70% of Angel.co connections. This distribution gives more weight to Angel.co because this datasource is considered to have less noise in regard of personal connections and it is used for professional to find jobs. Besides, between 5 and 30% of Twitter followers are fake: they’re bots, spam accounts, inactive users, propaganda, or other non-engaged/non-real users according to Sparktoro.com
Of the 5,540 founders that are part of this study, Angel.co exposed that there are 444 founders owners of more than 1 merchant. David Gutelius, David Cancel, Harj Taggar are among the most influential with more than 1 company. Regardless of their company number, Paolo Privieta, Richard Titus, Micah Badwin and Danielle Morill would be the most influencial founders according to the data.
Events & Institutions
Events happening in the next months:
Locations
USA, Canada, China and India are hosts of 3809 events (48% of all global events mapped).
Dates
Due to the fact that all events were gathered during July and August of 2019, most of the events are from those dates. During the next year, April is having the peak of the year with 167 events.
Verticals
The industries with more events are HR, Jobs & Career, Antiques & Philately, Veterinary, Aerospace & Telecommunication. The events with the most visitors are Gifts & Gifting, Fashion & Beauty, Architecture & Designing, IT & Technology and Business Services.
Visitors by Verticals & Regions
On all regions, Direct Selling is the category with most visitors. Travel is the second most visited category in Asia and India and Agtech & Food is the second most visited category among EMEA and SSC.
Institutions
2,155 of institutions are in USA, Canada, India and China,
